{"id":3825,"date":"2009-04-10T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2009-04-10T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:57:19","slug":"the-perils-of-being-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"The perils of being yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday afternoon trying to replace the glass carafe of the Krups coffeemaker here at the SF house. I&#8217;m anti Krups to begin with as the Krups family dates back to some serious Nazi involvement but that said, I went out in search of the glass carafe while T was napping.<\/p>\n<p>I drove to the Vargas mall and have to say I was appalled by the attitude of the local old people. One white haired woman cut me off and took the parking place that I had been waiting for, for a good five minutes. I rolled down my window and asked if she had noticed that I was there and she mumbled something like you looked like you were waiting for another one &#8211; I looked around but there was no other one. As I moved ahead and found another spot, I noticed a white haired man hunched behind the steering wheel aggressively cutting off another patient parking space hopeful &#8211; and thought what goes on here in the retirement community of old Santa Fe &#8211; does everyone feel entitled past a certain age?<\/p>\n<p>I went inside the desolate mall and had a feeling of deja vu &#8211; here I was again, shopping for something I had already had just hours ago &#8211; the nice woman at Las Cosas gave me a number to call where a company could replace the carafe in 24 hours &#8211; SCORED, I thought as I got back in the car carefully watching for rogue white hair drivers. <\/p>\n<p>Back at the house, T&#8217;s still napping, I couldn&#8217;t find the model number on the pot and the phone number said they were closed till tomorrow. Then I went online and searched their site and didn&#8217;t see this particular model so I became anxious &#8211; no coffee for T in the morning, no coffee pot for the homeowners. I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to relax and enjoy myself until the coffee pot was replaced. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped back in the car and drove to the mall again and bought a brand new Krups coffee maker just like the one that is here. As I was carrying it out to the car, I walked along the periphery of the lot, again worried about the drivers, and as I drove back to the house, the crystal clear air, bright blue sky above me, all I could say to myself is &#8220;sometimes I really dislike being me.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday afternoon trying to replace the glass carafe of the Krups coffeemaker here at the SF house. I&#8217;m anti Krups to begin with as the Krups family dates back to some serious Nazi involvement but that said, I went out in search of the glass carafe while T was napping. I drove to the Vargas mall and have to say I was appalled by the attitude of the local old people. One white&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-ZH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}